Beware of PayPal Phishing Email
I just received 3 of these for various PayPal accounts. It SOUNDS like PayPal, but it is not FROM PayPal. The header is: Notification of Limited Account Access RXI-112
Then the email reads: Notification of Limited Account Access
Dear XXXXXX XXXXXXX,
As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.We requested information from you for the following reason:
We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use associated with this account. As a precaution, we have limited access to your PayPal account in order to protect against future unauthorized transactions.
Case ID Number: PP-XXX-XXX-XXX
In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement, your account access will remain limited until the issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, if access to your account remains limited for an extended period of time, it may result in further limitations or eventual account closure. We encourage you to follow our verification procedure as soon as possible to help avoid this.
It then gives you a link to the scam website where it wants you to log into their system. Of course, that way they have your PayPal login information. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happens next...
One tipoff is that the email address it supposedly was sent from is service (at) paypall.com - notice the two L's at the end.
I just wanted everyone to be aware.
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